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Christopher Guest has long been respected as crazy-brilliant, an astute observer of human nature with a very dry wit.
The faux documentary filmmaker who gave us ?Best in Show,? ?Waiting for Guffman? and ?A Mighty Wind? now tries his hand at a single-camera TV series, written and created with Jim Piddock. ?Family Tree? begins an eight-episode run Sunday on HBO.
The charming Chris O?Dowd (?Bridesmaids?) holds together the story as Tom Chadwick, a Brit who has been bequeathed a box curios by his great aunt Victoria. Being an unemployed lonely guy just out of a relationship, Tom throws himself into researching his unknown relatives. He gets help from his loser pal Pete (played by Tom Bennett) and his sister Bea (Nina Conti) and, of course, his sister?s monkey hand puppet. Don?t discount the potential of a monkey hand puppet to win you over with a sly, knowing attitude. His father, played by Michael McKean, takes time out from guffawing at dreadful TV comedies to suggest that Tom?s great-grandfather William may be the man in a military uniform in a photograph in the old trunk. And so begins the search that will unveil hidden family truths.
Sweet, goofy and sometimes hilarious, the half-hours regularly introduce new characters? Bob Balaban, Lisa Palfrey, Kevin Pollak, Amy Seimetz and Fred Willard among the players? and will range from Derbyshire to California in future episodes (Ed Begley Jr. plays Tom?s American cousin Al). This series won?t change the world, or even the world of TV comedy, but it is an intriguing diversion.
Source: http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2013/05/10/christopher-guests-family-tree-debuts-on-hbo/13951/
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